Steel barrel.



l. H. WEBBi STEEL BARREL. APPLICATION man AUG. 19. 1914.

1,1 83,928. Patented May 23, 1916.

Witnesses 0 mm co., WASHINGTON, n. c.

ISAAC I-I. WEBB, or aooKvIt E, rnnnsvnvanm.

'srEnL Banana Specification of Letters Patent;

' PatentedMay 23, 19.16.

Application filed August 19, 1914. Serial No. 857,542.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC H. WVEBB, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Steel Barrel, of which the following is a specification.

The device forming the subject matter of this application is a container adapted primarily although not exclusively to receive floor dressings and like compounds containing oil.

When substances of the sort above mentioned are placed in a container, the oil gravitates to the bottom of the container, and as a consequence, the upper portions 0 the substance in the container are comparatively dry and more or less useless.

One object of the present invention is to provide a container the ends of which are covered by cap-like'heads, the construction being such that, at the will of the operator, the container may be inverted, thereby permitting the accumulated oil in the bottom of the container to pass downwardly through the material from which the oil has previously drained.

Another object of the invention is to provide novel means for mounting the caps in place and for retaining them.

The invention aims to improve the body portion of the container.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains.

With the above and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing :Figure1 shows in side elevation, one form of'container constructed in accordance with the present invention; Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation, the constituent parts of the container being separated and being telescoped with respect to each other.

Referring particularly to Figs. 1 and 2, the container is shown as comprising a body body 1 is portions 2 an structures herein denoted generally by the numeral 1. The a composite structure and includes two frusto-conical'tubular end portions denoted respectively by the numerals 2 and 3. Inserted into the larger end of the part 2 and secured therein as shown at i is a bilgering 5. Inserted into the part 3 and secure therein as shown at 6 there is a bilge-ring 7. The bilge-ring 7 is slightly smaller in diameter than the bilge-ring 5, so that the ring 7 may be inserted into the ring 5. The overlapped end of the part der 8, against which the edge of the bilgering 5 abuts, when the structure is set up as shown in Fig. 1.

Caps 9 are applied to the ends of the body 1, the caps being of dish-like form and each cap being of a suflicient height so as to hold and contain a considerable amount of oil, the caps overlapping, the respective end d 3 of the body 1. The caps 9 carry ears 10 and through the ears on the respective caps may be laced in zig-zag form, a securing element in-the form of a wire, cord or the like, shown at 11.

Preferably although not necessarily, the

described are made 0 metal throughout.

Obviously, the body portion of the container may be perforated if the structure is to be employed for shipping vegetables and the like.

It will be understood readily that should the oil gravitate to the bottom of the container, the cap may be placed upon the upper end of the container and the container may be inverted, that cap which formerly constituted the bottom of the container being removed. In this manner, the oil which accumulated at the bottom of the container will leak downwardly, thus renewing the substance out of which the oil has filtered.

The constituent portions of the body 1 may be pulled apart, the smaller end of one portion being inserted into the other, the. caps being telescoped and being placed within the innermost of the telescoped portions of the body.

Having thus described the inventiomwhat is claimed is I In a container of the class described, a pair of bilge rings having their inner ends detachably telescoped; apair oftubular, frusto-conical end sections into the larger extremities of which the outer ends of the 3 forms a shoulbilge rings'are inserted and secured, the with the bilge ring of the said other end 10 larger extremity of one end section constisection.

tuting an abutment for the bilge ring of In testimony that Iclaim the foregoing as t e other end section; caps on the smaller my own, I have hereto aflixed my signature extremities of the end sections; and a conin the presence of two Witnesses.

IIGCtlOIl uniting the caps, the connection c0n- ISAAC H. WEBB. stituting a means for holding the caps in Witnesses:

place and a means for holding said larger M. G. MAYER,

extremity of one end section in abutment M. E. HEIDRIOK.

"Commissioner of Patents, 

